River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-08
FROM WASHINGTON.

The Government revenues for the month
Of November amounted TO about $50 500
600
| The pOstmaster-Cienera suggests, in his
annual report, a number of measures for
/ the improvement of the service, the more
| important being the extension and perfec-
ton OF the system Of free delivery, the
reformation of the system OF employing
/ and paying for railroad transportation and
! the establishment of additional fast-mail
/ service
| The public debt statement for November is
as follows. Total debt Including interest
| 81, 675. SIT, GEO; less cash items available
/ for reduction of debt and reserve hills for
redemption OF United States notes $780,
| 374, BOG. 81. 295. Al, 753; cash in treasury,
500. 25s. 7OI debt less amount in treasury,
| 81. 24O 1s3. O52. Decrease during Noyem-
Der. 81. 49O.35O
The Comptroller of the currency in his
annual report issued on the LIST, shows that
the total number of National banks organ
lied mp to October 81 was 3. sos, of which
625 had gone into voluntary Liquidation and
119 had failed leaving in operation at that
date 3.O61
THE Commissioner of Agriculture in his
annual report on the LIST says that the work
in his department in suppressing pneu-
monia among cattle progressed favorably
during the year and he believes that this
dangerous plague can be exterminated by
the end of the next fiscal year
THIS years cotton crop is estimated at O.
4SO. 900 bales
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
made public their first annual report on the
ID The report says that the operation of
the law has in general been beneficial; COM
plants of unjust discrimination by railways
are less frequent; the pooling of freights
and of railway earnings has come TO an end,
and, as a rule. obedience to the law is gen
e-aL
THE wheat crop Of the Northwest was on
the 2d placed at 50. 600, 600 bushels
THERE We're 2I5 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the I'd, against POS the previo Gus seven
days
THE exchanges at twenty six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended ON the 81 aggregated
| 81, 113, 277, 100, against SOL 9SS, 1863 the
previous week As compared with the
corresponding week OF 1856 the decrease
amounted TO 1913 per cent
The Interstate Commission decided on
the 3 that cOlOred people may be assigned
separate railway cars, but they must be
| equal in accommodations 10 those for
whites
HE EtEHAtLS u inc I1AElAL OlAltG AbE Lilt
/ last fiscal year amounted to 81, Ij0, 600.
and the expenditures S9s1 600 The num-
Der of patents granted was 2l732
ON the 9th the Secretary of the Treasury
transmitted to Congress the estimates of
appropriations required for the fiscal year
ending June 30 lsS9 The total amount
estimated as required for all expenses OF
the Government is 1926, $50 793, which is
! -, 344, 800 more than the sum called for in
the estimates submitted last year.
TIE stock of wheat in sight on the 9TH in
this country amounted to 40, 200. ga bush
els, of corn to 5.772, ISL bushels, and of
+ oats to q, 4J1, 75I bushels \ year ago the
stock of wheat was 90, 539. 33I bushels, of
corn /, 7:BS. sS4 bushels, and OF oats $780,
SOS bushels.
TIE total fire loss in this country during
November was I6.OO3, go, an increase
of S6, OOO, coo over the same mon h last
year
THE United States Supreme Court rem
dered decision on the 9TH declaring that
the Kansas Prohibition law is valid The
court held that a State had right under its
| police power 70 suppress the manufacture
OF liquor and the liquor traffic without
making compensation To the dealers for the
/ value of the property destroyed by its ac-
I riOn